The forecast for Sunday is gorgeous... perfect day for a barbecue!

As previously mentioned, joecoustic is coming to visit (yaaaaaay!), and we'd like to give people an opportunity to see her while she's here. After some discussion we've decided to keep it casual rather than doing something structured. So, to that end...

You're invited to an
Open House
starring
joecoustic!
Sunday, May 31
from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
at our home(drop me an ( Read more... )

joecoustic is coming to visit! Yaaaaaaaaaay! So we thought we should give some other people a chance to see her, too. :-) Current thought is to have some form of gathering* at our place on Sunday, May 31. If you're interested, let me know, and I'll keep you posted with details as the plan develops ( Read more... )

We're going to be having Shabbos dinner with introverte and 530nm330hz. Would anyone else like to join us? We'd be glad of more company, but if you're interested, please respond this week (1/7 - 12) with a note as to what you'd like to bring. I'd like to have final arrangements made by 1/16 at latest, and I really don't want to have to chase people. Thanks for ( Read more... )

Just got back from a Weird Al Yankovic concert. This was relatively spontaneous; a friend called us a couple days ago to say they had extra tickets, and did we want to go? We hesitated briefly because we're trying to budget carefully right now, but who knows when the next chance would be, and we haven't really done anything fun in ages... so we ( Read more... )

Does anyone know a good ice cream place in walking distance of (ideally) the Orange Line, toward the northern end? Some friends from the midwest are going to be in town soon after we move, and we usually take them someplace for Good Ice Cream. (I think last time it was Christina's.) But with 2 of us, 2 of them, and their 6-year-old, fitting into ( Read more... )

Went and saw Ghost Rider tonight. I thought it was a pretty good comic-book movie - reasonable plot, good effects, and not as creepy as I expected. sdavido said there were a few deviations from the "real" story but he thought it was reasonably close. In all it was a fun way to spend an evening, particularly since we got to spend some time catching up ( Read more... )

We've had several cameo appearances at the store this week. Sunday dancingdeer and lucky fiance points came in to do some preliminary research. Monday mabfan dropped in to say Hello while en route to meet gnomi. And today teddywolf was in the neighborhood and stopped by to visit. (Unfortunately I had just run out to take a neighbor-merchant to pick up her car at the mechanic - ( Read more... )

Finally got everything put back in the kitchen cabinet! Yay! It took longer than I would have liked because when I started putting stuff back in, I realized that a couple shims got misplaced during the repair work, so if I loaded the cabinet it would fall over. Not good. I didn't have a chance to buy more shims until Friday, and we weren't ( Read more... )

Tonight we had dinner with tarkrai at Taam China 2. He was coming from 495, so it was geographically convenient (and we didn't want to pass up the chance to spend time with him while he's in town). The restaurant is tucked in on a side street, and easy to pass by if you don't know where it is - sdavido felt that they need a more prominent sign facing the ( Read more... )